Tuesziday

want to be clear that if i ever talk about a headcanon and then later discuss a headcanon that is directly contradictory to the first one, that’s because headcanons exist in a quantum state where they are all simultaneously true and not true up until the point where i discuss it in detail, in which case that is the one that is true in that instance. schroedinger’s headcanons

that’s what characters ARE. not people, but potential. many things, as needed, no matter how mutually exclusive.

[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: #good idea generator #yes i think this character is aroace. yes i think she is a lesbian. yes i think she’s bisexual #no not all at once just when i’m not fic writing. once i start fic writing the waveform collapses and only one of those is true #what is the point of being in fan spaces if i cannot explore like 700 different interpretations of the same character/storyline/dynamic/etc #wrow /End ID]

it actually takes 136 years to draw one line. so think about that next time you want to be mean to an artist

I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.

Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.

It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.

Previous tags pass peer review:

#the catholic church: *collects guys who are fond of a) studying b) chanting and c) jobs where you get to wear a big hat*#the guys: *immediately start being wizards*#the catholic church: *surprised marginalia cat face*

every moment of every day i am thinking about this tiktok

Lumpfish come in a variety of shapes and colors.

[He scoops up the fish, it spits water and he turns it toward the camera]

This one is stumpy and green. Very beautiful, very powerful.

[He picks up another fish and turns it toward the camera]

This is what a normal lumpfish looks like. It is more elongated, but still a vibrant blue color. Very beautiful, very powerful.

[He picks up another fish and turns it toward the camera]

This is one of the stumpiest ones we have. Its hump is very high. It is very stumpy, but yet very beautiful, and very powerful.

[He pans over a lot of fish, all looking up at the camera]

My fish army is ever growing, and soon I will over throw the world. Very beautiful, very powerful.

because of this tiktok, i frequently murmur "very beautiful, very powerful" at myself, and i cannot recommend it enough.

[ID: a banner with a screenshot from the above video of a hand holding a lumpfish. the rest of the banner is a similar blue to the fish, with the text: this user is very beautiful. very powerful." end text and ID.]

self-recognition through the other (concerned)

damn. that guy needs help. yes i'm sure. no i'm not telling you why.

[id: a brown budgett's frog (lepidobatrachus laevis) resting in a black frying pan set in a white plastic tray. It is lying down in a position so that its arms and legs are tucked under its rotund body, and it appears to be grinning widely at the viewer. /end id.]

chesire frog. love it with all my heart.

I saw the term "malgendering", which is only recognizing someone's gender identity when it can be used to hurt them, and that's such a nice succinct way to describe both massive institutional issues (a trans women who is arrested for public indecency when taking off her top and then sent to a men's prison, mandatory military service countries that require both trans women and trans men to serve, a trans man being denied ovarian cancer care because that's "for women") and the smaller scale social interactions of "well since you're a man now I can hit you" and "don't like random dick pics? too bad. welcome to womanhood" and the godawful usage of theyfab

there's also the more subtle, manipulative forms. if someone uses any pronouns and you want to paint them as dangerous and a threat, stick with "he". if you want to make him seem irrational and whiny instead, call her a Karen. if you disagree on transfem issues, he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about. if you disagree on transmasc issues, she should mind her own business. you see?

if you have a good gender and a bad gender this will always be an issue. kill gender essentialism alongside bioessentialism

Hi new friends. Please don’t censor words, especially triggering ones. Seeing trigger words written l!ke th!s doesn’t stop them from being triggering.

It just stops Tumblr’s built in filter (see under settings) from working which many of us have in place to protect ourselves.

This has happened to me multiple times this week, and as someone currently struggling with suicidal ideation, has not been great.

You are not on TikTok or Insta, please use the full words so people can protect themselves. Thank you 💖

WHY DO GUINEA PIGS HAVE SUCH A HUMAN NOSE/MOUTH SLAPPED ON A FUR POTATO WHY DID GOD ALLOW THIS

oh i kind of see what you mean! wait–

guinea pigs have two modes 1) human mouth/nose on a fur potato and 2) toothy gate to hell on a fur potato

ENJOY

THIS IS THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE PLEASE MARRY ME

[id: the first two images are guinea pigs with their mouths open just enough to show cute pink tongues as they look at the camera. the next two images are guinea pigs yawning so that most of their faces are obscured by their vertical, oblong mouths with long rectangular teeth. the fifth and last image is a digital illustration in two parts. the first part is labeled 1.) and depicts a brown and white guinea pig whose entire head is replaced by a human mouth and nose. the second half of the illustration is labeled 2.) and depicts the same guinea pig’s round body but the entire head is opened up with a many-toothed round mouth that has flames inside of it and three little mournful ghosts escaping out of its depths. end id]

i was at a little park fest thing today and someone was there with their cats who were trained to hang out in a stroller?? like they were SO chill it was amazing. the cats were obviously enjoying themselves and were very well trained to stay right in or under their catmobile.

until, that is, i rolled up in my wheelchair and one of them turned and saw my vaguely stroller-like contraption and *immediately* jumped out of his cat-approved-stroller to climb around on my chair like OH WOW WHEN DID WE GET ANOTHER WHEELEY THING YAY! :D

i was like sir you are not supposed to be here and he just looked up at me like oh yes i am ! i must stay in wheeled contraption !!! and he was wearing a lil bowtie so i could not argue with him

[id: the Is This a Bird meme edited so that a stock photo of a gray tabby cat with a bowtie is the one gesturing at the It's Free Real Estate meme that has a disability symbol of a person in a wheelchair edited on to it. end id]

[id: #it's free...wheel estate /end id] (via @youdontoutgrowpunk-sir )

stop being funnier than me on my own post!!

Folks, backup your Tumblrs, for real this time

To be clear, I don't have any news about any impending doom. But I've heard a bit more about what's going on with staff after the layoff of last week, and there are even less people than I thought still working here.

I don't think even the current staff know what's going to happen, but honestly, I don't see how the high ups could even pretend to intend to keep this place open while virtually unstaffed.

And of course, if the most despicable thing happens, you can find me at @javi@goblin.band from any fediverse platform 🤷

for reference, OP is a former employee of Tumblr who tries to keep up to date with tumblr’s inner workings. please back your blogs up.

[Image description: a digital three-panel comic by the artist crumb, @ cuptoast on Twitter, who is not credited here. The comic features a rodent-like creature.

In the first panel, the creature is holding a phone with a displeased look on their face. They think, "i dont like this thing".

In the second panel, the creature is touching their phone's screen with a paw. The word "block" is written above them in asterisks, signifying that they are blocking someone or something.

In the third panel, the creature is elatedly prancing in a sunny field with flowers and bushes. End description.]

Source, thanks to @ thatgalwithmyface on Tumblr: https://x.com/cuptoast/status/1887605740241887352

every trans person with a bad mother deserves 1 billion dollars

You’re tired. Burnt out. Exhausted. Stressed.

This lowers your capacity for emotional regulation.

You’ll cry more easily. Get dragged into low moods more easily. Simple little things where you’re like ‘dang, that shouldn’t hit so hard,’ will wallop you.

This will trick you into thinking you’re weak and can’t handle life. A loser.

Not so my friend.

It’s a signal that you need a nap, need to allow for more sleep at night, need to prioritize and scale back on what you can accomplish in a day, need to take a mental health day or even a leave.

Something’s got to give.

But!

It’s not your self worth.

I have an opinion about the Switch 2 price but y’all aren’t gonna like it bc it’s more nuanced than just Nintendo bad greedy

Since someone actually asked

Like corporations are bad, but there’s a bigger reason that games cost so much. I’m actually okay with mainstream games getting more expensive bc it helps raise the floor on indie game prices (which should all be higher, Stardew Valley being $15 is actually bad for indie devs everywhere bc everyone compares your indie game to SV and is like why can’t you have this much content and be this cheap. SV should be like $40-50.) bc then me an indie dev might get paid more and not be starving.

The nuance is that twin evils are at work here: 1. video game costs have kept up with inflation (as they should to pay for the higher fidelity gamers demand and to pay the bigger and bigger teams) but wages have not. Ppl should be asking why isn’t our minimum high enough I can afford a game with a few hours of work (the equivalent of less than half an extra shift if you wanted to take it once a month)?

Essentially: please gain class consciousness, bite every billionaire, demand minimum wage and thus all other wages be raised to keep up with inflation and suddenly you will have money for games and consoles, and game devs will be able to make quality products that allow them to feed their families.

Evil #2, (this evil is also why AI has gotten so big) is that art has been even further reduced to things that are solely meant to be consumed, spit out and then immediately forgotten for the next item of consumption. This conflating of art (and video games are art!) with products and consumption is the other half of the nuance here. It’s not wrong for people to ask, hell even to demand they get paid well for making good art. They should be getting paid well for it.

Either that or gamers need to lower their impossible standards.

Anyways. Corporations are evil and not your friend, that includes Nintendo, but please consider using this anger to gain class consciousness and realize that the real thing to be mad about is not that games and consoles are more expensive, but that you are not getting paid enough, are being exploited, capitalism is a failed system and all billionaires are evil and need to be forcibly divested of their money.

'#adjusted for inflation a snes game was over $100 in 2025 dollars #the issue is not that games are keeping up with inflation its that wages arent' (tags are from hungarianmudkip69)

Cellbit: [Reading a Tweet] "The games The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild and Tears of Kingdom will now be in Brazilian Portuguese."

Cellbit: WHAT?! Nintendo bought a map! Nintendo bought a map, they discovered Brazil! Nintendo discovered Brazil! They found out we don't speak Spanish!!!

[ via @CellbitENG ]